Thursday Island

Some articles on thursday island, island:

RMS Quetta - Disaster ... Destined for Thursday Island, the ship turned into the Adolphus Channel to round the Cape York Peninsula. 914pm the ship struck an uncharted rock in the middle of the channel near Albany Island ... midnight the two boats came together and those aboard were placed on the nearest island ...

Buddhism In Australia - History ... mostly involved in the pearling industry in northern Australia, reaching an estimate of 3600 on Thursday Island, and also in Broome and Darwin, Northern Territory ... A community was believed to exist on Thursday Island in 1876 ... in Australia are two bodhi trees planted on Thursday Island in the 1890s, although the temple which once stood there no longer does ...

The Red Room Company - Public Projects ... Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin, and from secondary school students in Perth, Darwin and Thursday Island, as the project charted a seafaring odyssey up. 2009, travelling from all five ports, to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait ... The bags were met on Thursday Island by the local community, and The Red Room Company was there to hold a school poetry workshop and to film the reception ...

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or thursday:

“The island dreams under the dawnAnd great boughs drop tranquillity;The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,A parrot sways upon a tree,Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”—William Butler Yeats (18651939)

“Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.”—Orville Wright (18711948)